Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?